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Psalm 79:12

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79:12Pay back our neighbors in full!19

May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!20

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Footnotes

  1. 19 Heb “Return to our neighbors sevenfold into their lap.” The number seven is used rhetorically to express the thorough nature of the action. For other rhetorical/figurative uses of the Hebrew phrase שִׁבְעָתַיִם (shiv’atayim, “seven times”) see Gen 4:15, 24; Ps 12:6; Prov 6:31; Isa 30:26.
  2. 20 Heb “their reproach with which they reproached you, O Lord.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors

the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times

the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors

the reproach they have hurled at you, Lord.

NLTNew Living Translation

O Lord, pay back our neighbors seven times

for the scorn they have hurled at you.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And return to our neighbors sevenfold upon them

their taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord.

KJV 1900King James Version

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom

Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.